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Radiation Therapy Services, Inc. Shareholders Approve Merger Agreement
Date:2/6/2008

- Closing currently expected to be February 21, 2008

- All material regulatory approvals have been received

- Class action lawsuit settled in principle

FORT MYERS, Fla., Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Radiation Therapy Services, Inc. (Nasdaq: RTSX) (the "Company") announced today that at the special meeting of shareholders held today its shareholders voted to approve the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of October 19, 2007 among the Company, Radiation Therapy Services Holdings, Inc. and RTS MergerCo, Inc. (the "Merger Agreement"). Holders of 18,057,310 shares, representing approximately 99.7% of the total number of shares of common stock that voted on the matter, voted in favor of approval of the Merger Agreement. Upon completion of the merger, each outstanding share of the Company's common stock (other than certain shares as described in the Merger Agreement) will be converted into the right to receive $32.50 in cash, without interest. Radiation Therapy Services Holdings, Inc. is owned by an affiliate of Vestar Capital Partners, a leading international private equity firm. The Company currently expects that the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement will be consummated on February 21, 2008, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions to closing under the Merger Agreement. All material regulatory approvals that are required to be obtained as a condition to the closing of the merger under the Merger Agreement have been received.

As previously disclosed, two lawsuits were filed in connection with the proposed merger on October 24, 2007 and November 16, 2007, respectively, against the Company, each of the Company's directors and Vestar Capital Partners as purported clas
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